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The Knower - Maiden in the Mist

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There's a /ton/ of things I'm gonna be practicing on. Thinking of doing a series of 'speedpaints' like this one to do this.  ^_^

Doar are from the fantasy setting :iconpages-of-trinh:, a world being created by my hubby and I! (hubby can be found at :iconrecklesscharge:) X)


The Knower- Maiden in the Mist

-She stepped out of the fog bank, graceful cloven hooves picking a path through the murky loam, silent as a specter. She hesitated for a moment wreathed in white tendrils of mist caught between two worlds before, with a weary slump of her narrow shoulders, she pressed on. Night song followed her, the crickets sang, the frogs chirped and the breeze in the tall dew cooled grass whispered in her tall furry ears chiding her for leaving.

     Moonlight played over her wild features dappling her already spotted naked flesh, it made her proud eight tined antlers glow and her already silver bright eyes shine all the brighter. Yet, as she walked she began to change her antlers began to fade, her eyes dimmed and clothing began to materialize around her form. By the time she had reached the edge of the village festivities she was just one more maid come to celebrate. 

     There was music, it had drawn her from the fog bitter and reluctant but drawn all the same. Food, aromatic mouth watering delicacies were heaped high on rough plank tables and drink as golden as the light of dawn flowed freely, but most importantly there were people. She was surrounded by smiling faces and laughter, dancing and happiness. She touched nothing but she watched everything, listening to the chatter of hard working farm folk, there was talk of wheat, of cattle and eggs, of rain and hard winters, she listened to it all, absorbing it.  There was bustle and life all around her, children ran and played shrieking with laughter, music thrummed a rapid jovial beat and the people danced together cheering mightily as each new song began or ended.

     Erza smiled. It was a small thing, a shy hesitant thing that just barely touched her lips. It hurt, the fluttering of emotion that stirred in her breast. It was always painful to walk through worlds she would never belong to but it was beautiful nonetheless.

                Perhaps noticing the look of melancholy cross her face a young maid, her golden hair in braids spun away from her partner at the edge of the dance circle and took Erza by the hands.

                "Dance with me!" she cried, red lips parted happily, blue eyes twinkling with cheer. Erza made to protest but the girl pulled her in and suddenly she was dancing, spinning in a warm embrace. She laughed with delight as her feet found the rhythm.-

 

Excerpt from The Knower, a Tale of Trinh




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jssabotta's avatar
This is just excellent, Shukafae!


(And in the prose, it's nice to see a doar have something nice happen to them for once.)